2002 Stonecipher Symposium on Technology, Communication and Culture Environmental Protection & Energy Policy: Finding a Balance March 25 & 26                       Tennessee Technological University Cookeville, Tennessee

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More information about many of the speakers can be found by following the links  from their names.   How are we responsible to the environment, and how do lawmakers develop environmental policy? What will our future energy needs be, and how will we meet future energy demands?  This year's symposium will bring together professionals from government, energy companies, academia and environmental organizations to discuss the balance between our nation's energy needs and  environmental protection.  Among the issues being discussed are oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska and how energy and environmental policies are developed.  SCHEDULE OF EVENTS All events are free and open to the public. Monday, March 25 7:00 p.m. Derryberry Hall Auditorium Keynote Speaker:  Environmental author Rick Bass will talk about writing to celebrate the natural world and to influence legislators to protect it.   Tuesday, March 26 9:30 a.m. OVC Room, Roaden University Center Panel Discussion Shaping Environmental Policy Presenters: William Futrell, president of the Environmental Law Institute and former president of the Sierra Club Michael Gunter Jr., assistant professor of political science at Rollins College, Florida Mark Stephens, professor and chair of the Economics, Finance and Marketing Department at Tennessee Technological University 11:00 a.m. OVC Room, Roaden University Center Kevin DeLuca, assistant professor of communication from the University of Georgia, will speak on "environmental rhetoric," the intentional and unintentional messages that influence public opinion about nature, wilderness and environmental and economic issues.   12:30 p.m. OVC Room, Roaden University Center U.S. Representative Bart Gordon will speak on the national energy policy and how it relates to Tennessee. 1:30 p.m. OVC Room, Roaden University Center Panel Discussion The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Presenters:  Adam Kolton, representative of the Alaska Wilderness League, a lobbying group David Bernhardt, director, Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs in the U.S. Department of the Interior's Secretary's Office  Paula Easley, representative of Arctic Power, an oil industry  lobbying group 3:00 p.m. OVC Room, Roaden University Center Student presentation Film presentation and commentary by Phil Wilbourn, adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering.  The film is a fifteen-minute video titled "Western Australia -- Barrow Island:  Barrels of Crude and Wallowroos." Presentations by Karen Quarre & Jeff Barrie Quarre will bring a display of children's artwork about ANWR.  Barrie will display the Alaska Coalition of Tennessee's "Faces for the Arctic Refuge" display, a 32-ft. long collage of photographs of Tennesseans asking Senators Fred Thompson and Bill Frist to vote against legislation to allow oil drilling in ANWR.   7:00 p.m. Derryberry Hall Auditorium Keynote Speaker:  Former Vice President Albert Gore Jr.  The presentation is free and open to the public, but tickets are required.  (Ticket holders must be in their seats by 6:45 p.m., or their seats will be given away.)  Tickets are no longer available for the keynote address, but the speech will be simulcast in the Roaden University Center OVC Room.  No tickets are required for the simulcast, and everyone is invited.